| JAMIA | Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association |
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| jour | journal |
| NEJM | New England Journal of Medicine |
| SI | System of International Units (Systeme International D'unites) |
| BIPM | International Bureau of Weights and Measures [Fr. Bureau International des Poids et Mesures] |
| ICD-9 CM | International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification |
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| ICD-9 | International Classification of Disease, ninth revision |
| ICHPPC | International Classification of Health Problems in Primary Care |
| ICIDH | International Classification of Impairments Disabilities and Handicaps |
| I.C.P.C. | International Classification of Primary Care |
| subjective psychology | The study of one's own mind and its various modes of action as a basis for psychologic deductions. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| depth psychology | The psychology of the unconscious, especially in contrast with older (19th century) academic psychology dealing only with conscious mentation; sometimes used synonymously with psychoanalysis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| developmental psychology | The study of the psychological, physiological, and behavioural changes in an organism that occur from birth to old age. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dynamic psychology | A psychologic approach that concerns itself with the causes of behaviour. (05 Mar 2000) |
| individual psychology | A theory of human behaviour emphasizing humans' social nature, strivings for mastery, and drive to overcome, by compensation, feelings of inferiority. Synonym: adlerian psychoanalysis, adlerian psychology. (05 Mar 2000) |
| industrial psychology | The application of the principles of psychology to problems in business and industry. (05 Mar 2000) |
| objective psychology | Psychology as studied by observation of the behaviour and mental functions in others. (05 Mar 2000) |
| educational psychology | The application of psychology to education, especially to problems of teaching and learning. (05 Mar 2000) |
| transfer (psychology) | Change in learning in one situation due to prior learning in another situation. The transfer can be positive (with second learning improved by first) or negative (where the reverse holds). (12 Dec 1998) |
| environmental psychology | The study and application by behavioural scientists and architects of how changes in physical space and related physical stimuli impact upon the behaviour of individuals. See: personal space. (05 Mar 2000) |
| existential psychology | A theory of psychology, based on the philosophies of phenomenology and existentialism, which holds that the proper study of psychology is an individual's experience of the sequence, spatiality, and organization of his or her existence in the world. (05 Mar 2000) |
| experimental psychology | A subdiscipline within the science of psychology that is concerned with the study of conditioning, learning, perception, motivation, emotion, language, and thinking, also used in relation to subject-matter areas in which experimental, in contrast to correlational or socio-experiential, methods are emphasized. (05 Mar 2000) |
| unconscious (psychology) | Those forces and content of the mind which are not ordinarily available to conscious awareness or to immediate recall. (12 Dec 1998) |
| forensic psychology | The application of psychology to legal matters in a court of law. (05 Mar 2000) |